{"id":254436,"date":"2007-08-15T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/15\/jose-maria-eca-de-queiros\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:50","slug":"jose-maria-eca-de-queiros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/15\/jose-maria-eca-de-queiros\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Maria E\u00e7a de Queir\u00f3s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Lytal is at it again, this time reviewing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E%C3%A7a_de_Queir%C3%B3s\">Jos\u00e9 Maria E\u00e7a de Queir\u00f3s&#8217;<\/a> <em>The Maias<\/em>. He is considered the greatest Portuguese writer, and I was just thinking about checking into him; Agualusa kept bringing him up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=160\"><em>The Book of Chameleons<\/em><\/a>. As usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndpublishing.com\/\">New Directions<\/a> is way ahead of me. I wish they weren&#8217;t quite <em>so<\/em> good, but it&#8217;s nice to know somebody out there is looking after my interests.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But as I read on, into the long straightaway that, comprising only two years of the novel&#8217;s 70-year narrative, takes up the majority of its pages, I began to appreciate E\u00e7a&#8217;s emotional point. Where a character such as Homais, Flaubert&#8217;s pedantic pharmacist, stays face up, a fool, in reader&#8217;s minds, E\u00e7a&#8217;s aristocratic fools have a flip side: Their civic and national damnation. Ridiculous as they may be, they always have the excuse of whistling in the darkness. In E\u00e7a&#8217;s hands, a Flaubertian fool becomes a tragic symbol.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not exactly a rave from Mr. Lytal&mdash;&#8220;But, as a builder of novels, E\u00e7a may deserve some immortality. &#8220;The Maias,&#8221; in its 600-page heave, does go somewhere.&#8221;&mdash;but it&#8217;s definitely going on the reading list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Lytal is at it again, this time reviewing Jos\u00e9 Maria E\u00e7a de Queir\u00f3s&#8217; The Maias. He is considered the greatest Portuguese writer, and I was just thinking about checking into him; Agualusa kept bringing him up in The Book of Chameleons. As usual, New Directions is way ahead of me. I wish they weren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[4186,4176,2136,4166,56,1646],"class_list":["post-254436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-benjamin-lytal","tag-eca","tag-ejvl","tag-jose-maria-eca-de-queiros","tag-new-directions","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328596,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254436\/revisions\/328596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}